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HK, India sign prisoner agreement

January 20, 2015
Correctional campaign

Correctional campaign:  Secretary for Security TK Lai and Indian Consul-General Prashant Agrawal sign the agreement.

Hong Kong and India have signed the Agreement on Transfer of Sentenced Persons.

 

Secretary for Security TK Lai and Indian Consul-General Prashant Agrawal signed the agreement today.

 

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Mr Lai said the transfer of sentenced persons to their place of origin, by returning them to an environment free of language and cultural barriers and where their friends and relatives can visit regularly, is conducive to their rehabilitation.

 

It is the 15th agreement of this kind Hong Kong has signed with other jurisdictions, including Australia, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Korea, Macau, the Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the UK and the US.



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